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<p n="16">upon Ground within the liberty and Precinct thereof<lb></lb>
which the said Church Wardens Overseers and<lb></lb>
Inhabitants have assessed after the Rate of Two<lb></lb>
pounds Eighteen shillings a Year as followeth<lb></lb>
that is to say "The Mayor and Commonalty and<lb></lb>
"Citizens of the City of London Governors of that<lb></lb>
"House of the Poor commonly called Saint Bartholomews<lb></lb>
"Hospital near West Smithfield London of the<lb></lb>
"Foundation of King Henry the Eight for their<lb></lb>
"Elaboratory where Several Houses stood which<lb></lb>
"were used to be charged in the poors Rate<lb></lb>
"12s..0d.Quarterly<lb></lb>
which rate hath been continued and now<lb></lb>
continues to be rated to the detriment and loss of<lb></lb>
the Charity. And that all the said four Pyles<lb></lb>
of Buildings being finished in One thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and Sixty Six the Governors pulled down<lb></lb>
Nineteen Old Houses and Shops (part of the said<lb></lb>
antient Buildings) to make an Aron to the Hospital<lb></lb>
for the benefit of the Patients which is a said<lb></lb>
can occupied space of Grand of about Sixty Six<lb></lb>
Yards by Sixty for which the said Parish Officers<lb></lb>
have assessed and rated the said Governors after the<lb></lb>
rate of forty one pounds five shillings a Year as<lb></lb>
followeth that is to say "The Mayor Commonalty<lb></lb>
"and Citizens of the City of London Governors of the<lb></lb>
"House of the Poor commonly by called Saint</p>
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